About This Site...or
Site Sell Web Designer Software
Well, I'd like to tell you its my fine prose and Dub's fabulous pictures that make this site profitable. I'm sure that's part of it:) PLEASE - we need some strokes. Developing and maintaining a website is a HUUUUGGGE (I'm not sure I made that long enough) undertaking. That is...until I discovered SiteSell. THE RISE...
If you read the About Us page, you'll see that we created our first travel site in 1995. FunTripsLIVE has a big audience and a lot of newsletter subscribers. This is not an accident. It became my personal project to learn how to market a website and attract subscribers to our newsletter. I spent months and months and many, many dollars buying fine products to make the site friendly to both search engines and humans. In February of 2001, FunTripsLIVE was in the top 1% of all websites! And yes, I'm rather proud of that fact. AND THE FALL...
But here's the problem. I couldn't keep it up. To make a website work - bring traffic and earn a few bucks - is a tremendous job. It means that not only must you be finding and using the right keywords, but you must have them strategically placed into each web page - and each search engine has a different set of rules, which means building pages for each engine. And that's just the start. Then there are all the other meta tags, headlines, body content, regular submissions to search engines, following pay-per-click programs, submitting to directories, writing articles, keeping track of ezine ads, writing newsletters, building affiliate programs, and on top of all that...the internet is a wild frontier! Just when you think you've got the search engines and techniques all figured out - they change. FunTripsLIVE began to suffer. As have many millions of websites - it just isn't as easy as [you may have heard]. I had to find another way. THE SEARCH FOR A BETTER MOUSETRAP WAY
As I mentioned above, I had already purchased tons of software and internet marketing aids - subscriptions, ebooks, consulting, affiliate programs. I studied and implemented all the techniques. But it all boiled down to one thing. Internet marketing is a full time job. And if you focus on that, what happens to your business? You get it. I simply didn't have the time. So then what's the use of having a website when nobody comes? The KEY to website success is TRAFFIC (and a great website, of course. But you already knew that part). SIn my quest to become an internet marketing guru (before I knew it would suck the life out of me:), I happened on SiteSell. But I was pretty jaded at that point, and very reluctant to fork out any more money on another learning curve and more 'stuff' to keep up. What fascinated me, however, was that most of the [real] marketing gurus gave it high reviews. At first I thought they all just patted each other on the back and made commissions by selling each others products. But since SiteSell was just about the only product I hadn't tried - and, probably more importantly, had several free courses that sounded useful and interesting to download - I began exploring. Frankly, it sounded too good to be true. TOP 10 REASONS TO USE SITESELL
See what you think. Here are are just a few (I'm serious) of the promises: Makes website construction a breeze Searches out profitable keywords with a click which keeps your site ranking high in search engine traffic Analyses and makes suggestions to your pages for search engine optimization with another click Automatically submits your pages on a regular schedule to the search engines Organizes your pay per click campaigns Organizes your email newsletter campaign Tracks your visitors - how many, where they come from, what keyword they used Provides tracking of your promotional efforts - ezine ads, etc Hosts the website (includes domain and email) NO 1 reason for using SiteSell (for me): Keeps track of all the search engine changes and helps you easily adapt your pages to stay on top!
THE HESITATOR
The free stuff got me very charged up - it all sounded so 'doable.' Did I order? No - what a procrastinator (the disease you get from being burned and exhausted from internet marketing). What I did do, was buy the book, Make Your Site Sell - again, too good to be true. I mean, 800 pages of valuable information for under $30.00? Come on now. OK - now I know. Ken Envoy, who is the Man in Charge at SiteSell has a motto that works. OVER DELIVER. He does. THE LEAP
So, having no more excuses, I decided to take the Cabo feature out of FunTripsLIVE and try it out. (I didn't do the whole site, because there is so much updating to be done, that I thought I'd start with one section and see how it did). Well, guess what? SiteSell actually does it all. And much more! With NO effort from me. Do I think it's worth it? Oh, yeesssssss. There I go again. SiteSell keeps me up with the engines now, tracks my progress, and supplies all sorts of advice, which relieves me of a gigantic amount of time. I'm going to admit that I did not purchase the system for almost a full year after I found it. I was pretty skeptical by then. Now I'm scrambling to get FunTripsLIVE back up to speed because we are getting so much more traffic on this site which is just one segment of FunTripsLIVE, but with a domain that is targeted (meaning that the people who visit have some kind of interest in Cabo San Lucas). And revenue? Well, remember what I said above about what makes a website successful? A LOT of traffic. That means you can't spend any time on a website that isn't in some way generating traffic. YOUR TURN
Check it out for yourself. Follow this link to see how other SiteSell users in your business are ranking. You can download a FREE trial and look it over. But PLEASE...don't wait the year that I did - I am kicking myself. GO! Right now - get traffic and make sales. Isn't that why you have a website?  You can thank me later:) Or if you're really skeptical as I was, download and read some of the great freebies. They are worth every minute of your time and you will not spend a cent. See ya on the net!
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